"Storyline" is the stand-out track from Power Piggs of the Dark Ages, a side-scrolling action platformer. Now, I have not played this game and of the two longplays I have watched, none of them featured this song, leading me to two possible conclusions. That it was originally written to play between levels while exposition about the Piggs' adventure was told but was cut from the game when the in-between transitions were replaced with just the level title cards, or both longplays started their way through the exposition so I never saw where this song played in the game.
This is all really a shame because I felt that none of the music in the game sounded like anything that would give you the impression that this was a fantasy adventure game. Even the music from the levels with titles like "Dark Age Donut," "Lost City of Swine," or "The Road to Wolff Castle," all sound like they could have been used in a brawler taking place in either modern times or the near future. Only "Storyline" has any semblance that this is a medieval/dark ages fantasy game with its bouncy 3/4 or 6/8 meter resembling a dance at a Renn Faire.
So if you are looking for a single track from a game that may or may not have been cut because it sounds different enough from the rest of the music in the game to fit in with a 16-bit fantasy-themed dance party, you need to look no further.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
Instrumental
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